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THE
ALUMNI
Nonprofit Org.
U.S. Postage
Paid
Permit No. 108
Stephenville, Texas 76401
TACTarleton State University
September, 1977
TARLETON
Full dayscheduled
A full day of activity has been
scheduled for Homecoming 1977
on October 15 at Tarleton State
University starting with the
annual bonfire and announcing of
the Homecoming queen on the
night of Oct. 14.
The board of directors of the
Alumni Association will hold their
annual breakfast on Homecoming
day for the purpose of electing
officers for the coming year and
naming four board members to be
submitted to the general
membership at the 10 a.m.
meeting in the Tarleton Center.
The Homecoming parade is
scheduled for 9:30 a.m. to be
followed by the alumni meetirr
and the Distinguished Alum'
luncheon.
The class of 1927 will also ho>
its golden anniversary meeting
the TV lounge of the center
starting at 10 a.m.
The luncheon will honor
Distinguished Alumni Mike
Moncrief and Mrs. Lucia Painter
Eaton, Distinguished Faculty
Member Miss Johnnie Shirley, and
Distinguished Friend of Tarleton,
Leo Potishman.
Tickets for the 11:30 a.m.
luncheon will be $4 each and
should be ordered through the
Alumni Association at Tarleton.
Tickets will also be available at
the registration desk and at the
dining hall.
The Homecoming football
game between Tarleton and
Southeastern Oklahoma State will
get underway at 2:30 p.m.
Following the game there will
be a reunion of the classes of
1938 through 1940 in the
ballroom of the Tarleton Center,
and an ex-lettermen's meeting in
the physical education building.
The classes of 1960-61 will
hold a reception at Tejas Country
Club starting at 7:30 p.m.
The annual Homecoming dance
will be held in the National Guard
Armory starting at 8:30 p.m. and
will feature the music of Karsell
Bates and the Basin Street Seven.
The popular band from Fort
Worth has played a number of
clubs in the area and was engaged
to provide music for "dancing,
listening, and talking" by those
attending.
Admission to the dance will be
$3 per person. Members of the
APO will provide set-ups for the
dance.HOMECOMING
Luc~ia Painte "j,
Johnnie Shirley
Leo Potishman
Construction starts
on fine arts centerA contract for $6,001,300 was
awarded by the board of regents
of The Texas A&M University
System on July 29 to Great
Southwest Construction
Corporation of Dallas for
construction of a fine arts
complex on the Tarleton State
University campus.
The contract was for a base bid
of $5.7 million submitted by the
Dallas company last month plus
all four alternates to the original
bid specifications.
The total cost of the 85,000
square foot building, including
fees and contingencies, will run
close to $7 million, according to a
system spokesman.
The four alternates, costing
$302,500, include special return
air ducts for improved accoustics
($10,000), orchestra shell
($43,500), parking lot lighting
($17,000), and audio-visual
systems ($232,000).
Official ground breaking for
the new building has been set for
Sept. 22. Construction of the
complex will requireapproximately two years with the
building scheduled to be used for
the first time in the fall of 1979.
Described by Dr. Christian
Rosner,ihead of the Tarleton
Music and Art Department, as one
of the "finest facilities in the
nation" the complex was designed
by architects Jarvis Putty Jarvis
with the accoustical consulting
firm of Bolt, Beranek, and
Newman, Inc. of Cambridge,
Mass., providing the accoustical
design as well as the theater and
audio-visual specialties.
Primarily a one story structure,
jthe complex will occupy the
northwest corner of the TSU main
campus sprawling 400 in one
direction and 300 feet in the
other. Although basically one
story, the stage lofts and
auditorium envelopes will tower
over all other structures on the
campus.
The exterior of the building
will be red brick to harmonize
with the other buildings on the
campus, and the main entrance
will create a mall with the existing
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Tarrant County judge Mike Moncrief of Fort Worth and
Mrs. Lucia Painter Eaton of Houston will be honored as
Tarleton State University's Distinguished Alumni for 1977 at
TSU's Homecoming on Oct. 15. Miss Johnnie Shirley,
associate professor emeritus of English from Stephenville,
will receive the Distinguished Faculty Member award and Leo
Potishman, of Fort Worth, will be recognized as the
university's Distinguished Friend.
The awards will be made at the Distinguished Alumni
Luncheon to be held in the Tarleton dining hall starting at
11:30 a.m.Moncrief is a native of Fort
Worth and a 1968 graduate of
Tarleton. While at Tarleton he was
president of the student body and
was selected to Who's Who
Among Students in American
Colleges and Universities.
He has also served as president
of the Tarleton Alumni
Association.
Moncrief was a member of the
Texas House of Representatives in
the 62nd session of the legislature,
and in 1974 was elected to a
four-yearterm as county judge of
Tarrant County.
The Tarleton graduate is
currently a member of several
local and state organizations and
is a member of the board for
Tarrant County Medical
Education and Research Center,
Tarrant County Juvenile Board,
Fort Worth Airpower Council,
Texas Boys Choir, Southwestern
Exposition and Fat Stock Show,
Coordinating Council for Mental
Health Services for Children in
Tarrant County, and Radiation &
Medical Research Foundation of
the Southwest.
He has served on the board of
the Fort Worth Junior Chamber
of Commerce, White Lake School,
Fort Worth Library, Longhorn
Council of Boy Scouts of
America, and the Tarrant County
Drug Abuse Board.
Moncrief has been active in the
Muscular Dystrophy Association
serving as a national vice
president. He is also a member of
the Texas Arts Alliance, Medicaid
Task Force, Texas Department of
Public Welfare, and is a charter
member of the Badge and Shield
Association of Tarrant County.
The young oil executive is also
a member of the Independent
Petroleum Association of
America.
In 1970, Moncrief was named
an Outstanding Community
Leader of America, and in 1971
was selected an Outstanding
Young Man of America. He has
been listed in Who's Who in
American Government,
Personalities of the South, andNotable Americans of 1976-77.
Moncrief was selected by his
peers as Freshman Legislator of
the Year in 1971, and was the
Fort Worth Press Club's
Newsmaker of the Year in 1974.
He was selected Outstanding
Young Man of Fort Worth in
1975 and the same year was
honored as an Outstanding Young
Texan.
Moncrief and his wife, Donna,
who is alsona Tarleton graduate,
have one son, Mitchell Key. They
reside at 4036 Tamworth Road in
Fort Worth.
Mrs. Eaton is a native of
Crockett and a graduate of
Crockett High School.
She finished Tarleton in 1921 as
an outstanding student with an A
average. She was a member of the
J-TAC staff and on the Y.W.C.A.
cabinet.
Mrs. Eaton received her degree
from Baylor in 1922 and did
graduate work in library science at
Colorado University. She
subsequently established libraries
and press clubs in all of the junior
high schools in Houston. Mrs.
Eaton and her husband
established Eaton Manufacturing
Company in Houston in 1927.
Following the death of her
husband in 1972, Mrs. Eaton
became president and chairman of
the board of Eaton Manufacturing
Company and sole owner. The
million-dollar company is a
convertor and printer of
flexographic materials including
all types of films, cellophane, and
speciality paper products.
In 1952, Mrs. Eaton organized
and established the first Harris
County Easter Seal Board. The
society is now in a new building
serving Harris and surrounding
counties. More than three decades
ago the former Tarleton student
also organized the parents of
handicapped children in Houston
in an effort to obtain school
advantages for the children.
Through the work of this group
the Houston school board became
the first in Texas to provide
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